Aura: Fate of the Ages Preview

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Continuing its coverage of obscure games, The Adrenaline Vault posted up a preview of Aura: Fate of the Ages:

The year was 1993. I was loitering around the electronics section of a department store, reading the back panels of every game on the shelf, including one called Myst. While this was also the year DOOM came out, nothing on those shelves made me stop and stare in quite the same way. I gawked at the screenshots, almost disbelieving, thinking, "How can these be from the actual game?" I was by no means alone in that exclamation. Made by an unknown developer called Cyan, Myst was so popular it spawned a new genre that combined gorgeous, immersive graphics with the heart, soul and puzzles of text adventures. Cyan's title and other early puzzlers broke the image of computer games as mere kids' stuff and helped to remove the economic ceiling from the budding industry. Sadly, except for the upcoming Myst IV: Revelations and a few other titles, they've come close to vanishing altogether. However, Streko Graphics and The Adventure Company refuse to let the genre slip silently away, and are preparing to release their latest offering: Aura: Fate of the Ages.